Soap is a salt of a fatty acid used in a variety of cleansing and lubricating products. In a domestic setting, soaps are used for washing and other types of housekeeping. In industry, soaps are used as thickeners, components of some lubricants, precursors to catalysts; when used for cleaning, soap solubilizes particles and grime, which can be separated from the article being cleaned. Where soaps act as surfactants, emulsifying oils to enable them to be carried away by water. Soap is created by mixing fats and oils with a base, as opposed to detergent, created by combining chemical compounds in a mixer. Humans have used soap for cleaning for millennia. Evidence exists of the production of soap-like materials in around 2800 BC in ancient Babylon. Since they are salts of fatty acids, soaps have the general formula nMn+; the major classification of soaps is determined by the identity of Mn+. When M is Na or K, the soaps are called toilet soaps, used for handwashing. Many metal dications give metallic soap.

When M is Li, the result is lithium soap, used in high-performance greases. Soaps are key components of most lubricating thickeners. Greases are emulsions of calcium soap or lithium soap and mineral oil. Many other metallic soaps are useful, including those of aluminium and mixtures thereof; such soaps are used as thickeners to increase the viscosity of oils. In ancient times, lubricating greases were made by the addition of lime to olive oil. Metal soaps are included in modern artists' oil paints formulations as a rheology modifier. Most metal soaps are prepared by neutralization of purified fatty acids: 2 RCO2H + CaO → 2Ca + H2O In a domestic setting, "soap" refers to what is technically called a toilet soap, used for household and personal cleaning; when used for cleaning, soap solubilizes particles and grime, which can be separated from the article being cleaned. The insoluble oil/fat molecules become associated inside micelles, tiny spheres formed from soap molecules with polar hydrophilic groups on the outside and encasing a lipophilic pocket, which shields the oil/fat molecules from the water making it soluble.

Anything, soluble will be washed away with the water. The production of toilet soaps entails saponification of fats. Triglycerides are fats. An alkaline solution induces saponification whereby the triglyceride fats first hydrolyze into salts of fatty acids. Glycerol is liberated; the glycerin can remain in the soap product as a softening agent, although it is sometimes separated. The type of alkali metal used determines the kind of soap product. Sodium soaps, prepared from sodium hydroxide, are firm, whereas potassium soaps, derived from potassium hydroxide, are softer or liquid. Potassium hydroxide was extracted from the ashes of bracken or other plants. Lithium soaps tend to be hard; these are used in greases. For making toilet soaps, triglycerides are derived from coconut, olive, or palm oils, as well as tallow. Triglyceride is the chemical name for the triesters of fatty acids and glycerin. Tallow, i.e. rendered beef fat, is the most available triglyceride from animals. Each species offers quite different fatty acid content, resulting in soaps of distinct feel.

The seed oils give softer but milder soaps. Soap made from pure olive oil, sometimes called Castile soap or Marseille soap, is reputed for its particular mildness; the term "Castile" is sometimes applied to soaps from a mixture of oils, but a high percentage of olive oil. The earliest recorded evidence of the production of soap-like materials dates back to around 2800 BC in ancient Babylon. A formula for soap consisting of water and cassia oil was written on a Babylonian clay tablet around 2200 BC; the Ebers papyrus indicates the ancient Egyptians bathed and combined animal and vegetable oils with alkaline salts to create a soap-like substance. Egyptian documents mention. In the reign of Nabonidus, a recipe for soap consisted of uhulu and sesame "for washing the stones for the servant girls". In ancient Israel, the ashes from barilla plants, such as species of Salsola and Anabasis, were used in soap production, known as potash. Soap made from potash is alkaline. If animal lard were used, it was kept lukewarm.

Lard, collected from suet, needed to be strained before being used with ashes. Traditionally, olive oil was used instead of animal lard throughout the Levant, boiled in a copper cauldron for several days; as the boiling progresses, alkali ashes and smaller quantities of quicklime were added, stirred. In the case of lard, it required constant stirring. Once it began to thicken, the brew was left to cool and harden for 2 weeks. After hardening, it was cut into smaller cakes. Aromatic herbs were added to the rendered soap to impart their fragrance, such as yarrow leaves, germander, etc; the ancient method here described is still in use in the production of Nabulsi soap. The word sapo, Latin for soap was borrowed from an early Germanic language and is cognate with Latin

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